Oxyrhynchus

ancient city of Upper Egypt, on western edge of Nile Valley; noted for extraordinary papyri found there in late 19th and early 20th centuries by English and Italian scholars; believed to date from 250 BC to AD 700; contain religious texts, early copies of New Testament, nonbiblical text of Gospel of Thomas', and ancient Greek masterpieces of poetry and drama; texts written mainly in Greek

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